Re: Red Carpet dying in strange ways

Apologies for following-up my own post.  Apparently this has also been
reported as bug #44985 on bugzilla.ximian.com
(http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=44985).

-norm



On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 09:33, Norman P. B. Joseph wrote:
> I've been having nothing but trouble with the new Red Carpet/rcd/rug
> modules since upgrading to XD2 on a Red Hat 9 box.  What usually happens
> is that it will quietly die whenever I click on one of the tabs in the
> main window (like "Installed Software", "Available Software", etc). At
> other times, rcd will suddenly start chewing up 99% of the CPU time
> (according to top), and the usual remedy is to issue an "/etc/init.d/rcd
> restart". This most recent death actually produces an error message on
> the console, so I thought I'd post and ask about it.
> 
> I'll start red-carpet from a root terminal, and from the Edit ->
> Preferences window choose a mirror, then click the "refresh channel
> data" button.  Then, when I click on the "Change your channel
> subscriptions" menu icon it dies with the following:
> 
>         # red-carpet
>         Red Carpet Client 2.0.1
>         Copyright (C) 2002-2003 Ximian Inc.
>          
>         error: col=6 i=4 len=8
>          
>         (red-carpet:11967): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: unable to set
>         property `pixbuf' of type `GdkPixbuf' from value of type
>         `gchararray'
>         #
>         	
> It now does this reliably, but the first time this happened I also saw
> this line in the console window, immediately after the above output:
> 
> 	Fatal Python error: ceval: tstate mix-up
> 
> The RPMs installed are
> 
> 	red-carpet-2.0.1-0.ximian.6.1.1
> 	rcd-1.4.3-0.ximian.6.1
> 	rug-1.4.3-0.ximian.6.1.1
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions on how I might track down the source of
> these problems?
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 Norman Joseph, Systems Engineer           [email protected]      IC|XC
 Concurrent Technologies Corporation         814/269.2633         --+--
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